Data Science & Business Analytics

Task - Exploratory data analysis

Ishika shivhare

The aim of this notebook is to explore the terrorist events around the world.

Interactive Plots and Animations are used in this notebook, for making the exploration easy and more informative.

Geography: Worldwide

Time period: 1970-2017, except 1993

Unit of analysis: Attack

Variables: >100 variables on location, tactics, perpetrators, targets, and outcomes

Definition of terrorism:

"The threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation."

Getting data ready for analyzation

After going through this correlational matrix we will eleminate some coloums

And take into account the coloums of interest

The data suggests that the terror has increased in from 2008

We can clearly see that Bomboing/Explotion is the major attack type used to harm the masses

we can point out that civilians are the main targets

Analyzation on the basis of region and trents they follow

Middle East and North Africa are the most terrorism prone regions followed by South Asia. The Australian Region have experienced very few terrorist events.

Types of Attack in various regions

It is evident that armed assault and bombing are the 2 major attacktyped in the various region

Most affected regions are

1. Middle-East & North America
2. South Asia 
3. Sub-Saharan Africa

The list of 10 most affected countries are

    1. IRAQ
    2. PAKISTAN
    3. AFGANISTAN
    4. INDIA
    5. COLOMBIA
    6. Philippines
    7. PERU
    8. EL SALVDOE
    9. UNITED KINGDOM 
    10.TURKEY

Attacks vs Deaths in the most affected countries

Sucessfull/ Unsucessfull attacks

The Successful rate has remianed high over the years

Among all the attack types hostage taking is the most unsucessfull Attacktype

Analyzation on most active groups

The graph clearly shows that FMLN and Shining path were actvive in the span of 1980 to 1995.
Al-shabaab,Taliban,ISIL have been active from 2000-2017

And one conclusion can be drawn that the major groups have been changing over the years

Top 25 worst Attacks between 1980 - 2016

Analyzation on the most affected country(Iran)

World terrorism affect over the years

It is visible that the Middle-East and Southern-Asia are the regions with highest terrorist activites, not only in numbers, but also in casualities.

It is spreading largely across the globe but in the past few years, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan have witnessed an increase in such number of activities.

  1. Terror Group:ISIL has incresed its activities significantly over the years.
  2. Gambia and Ireland have completely tackled high terrorist activities.(due to low terror activities) Hostage target type activities saw a significant rise till 2010. Taliban activities saw maximum casualities and usage of high amount of explosives.